Egis has appointed Afshan Rasheed to lead a new UK environmental consultancy practice, positioned alongside its existing energy, water and transport teams. The unit will deliver environmental impact assessment and wider environmental services across Egis’s major infrastructure and engineering portfolio, embedding sustainability criteria from early optioneering through to construction delivery. Rasheed, who has previously held senior roles at major engineering consultancies, is tasked with scaling specialist environmental capability and building high-performing, multidisciplinary teams across the UK business.

Saudi Arabia is overhauling waste management under Vision 2030, with the National Center for Waste Management (MWAN) targeting 94% diversion of municipal solid waste from landfill and 100% treatment of hazardous and medical waste by 2035. The strategy includes expanding engineered sanitary landfills, waste-to-energy plants and construction and demolition recycling facilities, alongside stricter permitting and data systems for industrial waste streams. For geotechnical practitioners, this signals rising demand for landfill lining systems, leachate control, gas capture infrastructure and brownfield remediation expertise across multiple regions.

Advance Green Futures has begun a 268-hectare restoration of the former Potland Burn mining site in Northumberland to create a large habitat mosaic and long-term biodiversity management area. The scheme is being structured to generate a tradable bank of biodiversity net gain (BNG) units for local developers needing to meet mandatory BNG requirements on constrained sites. For civil and housing projects in the area, this offers an off-site BNG route that could materially influence land valuation, masterplanning, and consenting strategies.